Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more. — Rihanna Copy Share Image
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us… — John Powell Copy Share Image
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb! — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the… — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state… — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I don't think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it's obviously someone who has a disease, and I don't… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ...… — Hubert Harrison Copy Share Image
I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it,… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
I'll put it this way, there was no C.P. Kennedy, there was no Dwight Dickham, we never went in the courtroom. That… — Susan Downey Copy Share Image
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
